DIETING! (Updates posted on Sunday morning.)

[SoralTheSol]

Greetings my fellow degenerates,

I have decided to share my journey here on QQ as I do my best to lose weight in the slow and stable way. Counting Calories. I am already 2 weeks into my plan and will be posting the numbers here. To be clear, I am not changing "What" I am eating. I am changing the amount that I eat. As for why I am sharing here, well why not? I feel like I should.

So, when I started I was at 275 lbs. My goal is to get down to 200. To do this, I need to eat 18060 calories or less each week to lose one pound. I will post my current weight on that same day, though that tends to bounce around more because Water Weight is a thing and it is terrible. My progress should also be relatively slower going forward as my diet has evened out. Date is in DD-MM-YY.

Week 1 06-06-25) 17421 Cals, 172 pounds
Week 2 13-06-25) 17510 Cals, 170 pounds

Feel Free to post about your own diet struggle. Lord knows the hardest part of this for me is ignoring my occasional need for munchies.

 

[humon]

The worst thing for dieting is boredom. That's when you feel the most hungry. If you can find things to occupy your time all through the day, you might just get so busy you forget to eat. I would find that I'd have some free time so I'd start watching a long video on youtube, and then right away I'd feel the urge to grab some snacks to stuff my face with while I watch. Sometimes I'd ignore it, other times I'd go for a piece of fruit or some veggies, to limit the damage. But after a while my stomach keeps crying out for fat and sugar and bread. I can't keep junk food in the house, because I know that if it exists, I will eventually consume all of it, no matter how much there is, so I just don't buy it anymore.

I started dieting last summer. I was around 220 or 230, I didn't really weigh myself before I started so I don't have a precise figure, but I worked my way down to 200 by the fall (and then I put 5 or 10 pounds back on over the course of the winter as a result of exercising less and drinking more beer, and getting the flu for a month and stuffing my face while I was recovering). For me, the goal wasn't weight, but to reduce my cholesterol (which didn't even change; I had to go on a pill like I'm an old man now). I went on a regime of mostly meat and vegetables, not counting the calories but just trying to keep the portions modest (just eyeballing the amount of stuff on my plate; one fist of meat, two fists of veggies, that sort of thing).

I combined this with daily exercise, including a half-mile run each day. When I first started running I could only go about 200 metres and then I'd have to drop to a walking pace to catch my breath, then try to pick up a run a minute later, running intermittently until I reached the finish line. But after working at it for about a week I got to where I could run the full distance without stopping. And after that, it was just a matter of trimming down the time I could complete it in, then extending the distance up to a full mile. For me, I think it was the running that had the biggest impact on my weight overall, but of course it wouldn't have worked without the diet also being in place. And it'd probably be a lot more effective if I stopped drinking beer, but that's half my social life, so... whatever.

 

[Oth]

Joke. Indicator for mealtime is when you start regurgitating acid. (Trivia: pure particle-free acid is coloured like dark beer.)

Personal method is to simply equate each and every single meal, snack, and drink into working man-hours, calculating estimated weekly profit to monthly expenses quota. Count anything and everything, where even chicken nuggets transmute into "0.5 hours" etc, and you are $X behind quota this week and have $¥ resupply budget for daily operations.

Joke. Efficient appetite killer.

 

[TheGrog]

Good luck, you'll need it. Restricting calories without changing your diet is probably the hardest way I ever tried to lose weight. Fucking extended fasting was easier than that.

 

[SoralTheSol]

It is honestly going pretty easy. I just need to be aware. I have dropped a few things because their ability to fill me up vs calories gained is just too inefficient. Ice-cream is surprisingly terrible. The hardest part is craving vs hunger and figuring out which is which.

 

[TheGrog]

I ran into three problems.

You need constant vigilance. A few mouthfuls of soda or juice, a bit more fries, a heavier hand with the fat when cooking, or even just slightly larger pieces of meat. Any one of these can wipe your planned calorie deficit for the day. Is this meal actually 600 calories? Did you weigh everything? Are your volume estimations good?
After a while my body decided it was in danger of famine. Blazing hunger and cravings just wear at me.
Worst of all is BMR adjustment. Feeling sluggish, tired, and sleeping more as your body conserves energy and renders your calorie deficit moot.

You may not have metabolic syndrome like I do though.

 

[Soupervan]

The worst thing for dieting is boredom. That's when you feel the most hungry. If you can find things to occupy your time all through the day, you might just get so busy you forget to eat.

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Decent advice but rather than boredom I feel the worst thing for dieting is resisting cravings- though given OP says he's eating the same stuff, just less, that shouldn't be an issue and even if it is that same advice can help with that as well.
That or getting some low cal snacks to munch on, celery, rice cakes, whatever, something to fill you up so you can ignore the cravings.

 

[Megaolix]

Have you tried a gym? Sometimes, it's just about eating a bit less and moving a bit more. Your older self will thank you too.

No need for crazy times or workout eithers. Say, 3 sessions of 1 hour per week will easily burn a few hundreds calories.